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Unite For Sight Fifth Annual International Health Conference
Building Global Health For Today and Tomorrow
April 12-13, 2008
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008
Join 2,000 conference attendees and 130 speakers for a stimulating
conference.
Keynote Addresses By: Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, and Dr. Jim
Yong Kim
Plus More Than 130 Featured Speakers
Call For Abstracts - DEADLINE JULY 15, 2007 -
http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/abstracts.php
Register For Conference - EARLY BIRD RATE ($45 Students, $70 All
Others) - http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/registration.php
REGISTER NOW TO SECURE LOWEST RATE
Who should attend? Anyone interested in international health, public
health, international development, medicine, social entrepreneur****p,
eye care, nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance, bioethics,
anthropology, health policy, advocacy, and public service.
*Keynote Addresses*
* Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD, Co-Founder, Partners in Health; Director,
Fran=E7ois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Fran=E7ois
Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of
Public Health; Chair, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical
School; Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health
Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Former HIV/AIDS Director
at World Health Organization
* Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia
University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor
of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor
to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
* Sonia Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Villages
*Featured Speakers (Confirmed Thus Far)*
* Greg Allgood, PhD, Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water,
Procter & Gamble
* Thomas Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace
Hospital, Ghana
* Michele Barry, MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine and Global Health
Director, Office of International Health; Chief, General Medicine
Firm, Yale University School of Medicine
* Georges Benjamin, MD, Executive Director, American Public Health
Association
* Terry Blaschke, MD, Professor of Medicine and of Molecular
Pharmacology (Active Emeritus), Stanford University School of Medicine
* Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General,
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School of Medicine and
Tufts University Medical Center
* Neil Boothby, EdD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family
Health; Director, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman
School of Public Health
* Harry S. Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE)
International
* Donald Budenz, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology,
Epidemiology, and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of
Medicine
* Michael Cappello, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology
and Public Health; Director, Program in International Child Health; Co-
Director, International Adoption Clinic, Yale University School of
Medicine
* Emily Moore and Mark Carlson, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Sociology,
San Diego State University
* James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal
Eye Clinic, Ghana
* Margaret Duah-Mensah, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic,
Ghana
* Susan Hall Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department
of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of
Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services
* David Friedman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
and International Health, Johns Hopkins University
* Michael Gyasi, MD, Ophthalmologist and Director of the Bawku Eye
Care Program, Ghana
* Heskel M. Haddad, MD, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, New
York Medical College
* Leon Herndon, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Duke
University Eye Center
* Ibrahim Jabr, Interim President, International Trachoma
Initiative
* Dean Karlan, PhD, President and Founder of Innovations for
Poverty Action; Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University
* Zachary Kaufman, MPhil in International Relations; DPhil
Candidate in International Relations, University of Oxford; JD
Candidate, Yale University Law School
* Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health
Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School
of Public Health
* Doug Lawrence, Vice President/General Manager, BD Medical -
Ophthalmic Systems
* Fiona Macaulay, President, Making Cents International
* Tshepo Mbalambi, BSc, Med Sci, MBcHB Candidate, University of
Ghana School of Medicine
* Christine Melton, MD, MS, Friends of Aravind Association
* Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of
Behavioral Science and Community Health, Program Director Global
Health, New York Medical College School of Public Health
* Thomas Novotny, MD, MPH, Director of International Programs;
Professor in Residence, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of
Medicine
* Edward O'Neil Jr, MD, Founder, Omni Med; Author, Awakening
Hippocrates: Primer on Health, Poverty, and Global Service, and A
Practical Guide to Global Health Service
* Cliff OCallahan, MD, PhD, Pediatric Faculty, Middle*** Hospital
Family Practice Program; Chair, AAP Section on International Child
Health
* Elijah Paintsil, MD, Associate Research Scientist, Department of
Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine
* Matthew Paul, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons
* Steven C. Phillips, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and
Projects, Exxon Mobil Cor****ation
* Louis Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International
Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
* Thomas Quinn, MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global
Health
* Nathan Radcliffe, MD, Glaucoma Service at New York Eye & Ear
Infirmary
* Ian Rawson, MD, CEO/Directeur General, Hopital Albert Schweitzer
Haiti
* William Reese, President and CEO, International Youth Foundation
* Ilya Rozenbuam, MD, GANY Glaucoma Fellow, New York Eye and Ear
Institute
* Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker
* Sarwat Salim, MD, Ophthalmologist
* Werner Schultink, MD, Chief Child Development and Nutrition,
UNICEF
* Bruce ****elds, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Chairman
Emeritus, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale University School of
Medicine
* Satyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna,
India
* Kari Stoever, Senior Program Officer, Neglected Tropical
Diseases, Sabin Vaccine Institute
* Glenn Strauss, MD, Vice President of International Health Care
and Programs, Mercy ****ps, Int'l
* Robert Farris Thompson, PhD, Col. John Trumbull Professor of the
History of Art, Yale University
* Jamie Lachman and Tim Cunningham, Clowns Without Borders
* James C. Tsai, MD, Chair, Department of Ophthalmologist, Yale
University School of Medicine
* Satya Verma, OD, FAAO, Director, Community Eye Care,
Pennsylvania College of Optometry
* Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching
Hospital, Ghana
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